Friday, February 11, 2011

Concept Guide Roaring Twenties

The scopes trial- teaching evolution, instead of teaching religion in schools. We now learn evolution

Prohibition- a women's movement to ban alcohol

Flappers- women who were wild, showed skin and smoked/drink in public

Economic issues- demand, debt

Dust Bowl- dust storms, caused by over farming, fatal

Agriculture Issues- over farming, machines produce too fast

Immigration Policies- quota of immigrants allowed in the US each year

Nativism- trying to preserve native Americans from the United States of America

Significant Literary Works- Jungle, The Ways of The White Folk, Unsafe at Any Speed

The Great Migration- a movement of African Americans from the south to the north, because of job opportunities, thus creating the Harlem renaissance

Sacco and Vanzetti- Italian anarchists, example of red scare, sentenced to death

Labor Issues- no leadership, manipulation

Red Scare- the American fear of communism, results of Palmer Raids- arresting innocent foreigners of suspicion of communism

Schenk vs. USA- espionage act

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